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Six greatly different Horological Machines, three Legacy Machines and another six "Performance Art" iterations: this is where MB&F stands in early 2015. While we are awaiting their tenth completely new creation, the time is just right to look back at – and say goodbye to…

In this article, I am probably going to discuss a few topics only tangentially related to these rather wonderful automatic anti-magnetic ref. SBGR077 and SBGR079 Grand Seiko watches. Allow me to share with you the reason for this in advance - no one appreciates watches…

The original Pebble, released in 2013, was among the first widely accessible, and indeed hugely successful, smartwatches on the market. Its bulky, uninspiring rectangular case, black and white screen and nerd-friendly user interface did put many off. Today, however, a promising new replacement has been…

The art of watchmaking is one of the few crafts still around today which thrives off the fine art of handcrafted goods; and no matter how beautiful and functionally advanced a smart watch might be, there is something truly exceptional to be said about a…

Standing high and wide in a lot of titanium, the Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon Spacemaster Orbital II Chronograph ref. DC3036C-SA-BK watch looks intimidating as you take it out of the box. While it is a traditional Swiss watch through and through, the modern design elements and…

Welcome back to an original aBlogtoWatch feature, "My First Grail Watch." In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after. Today, we're speaking with Hamilton Powell, the fellow who founded consignment site Crown & Caliber.…

I’ve admired from afar the skeletonized tourbillon watches that Roger Dubuis has been producing for years now. Delicate, interesting, visually assertive, and a bit controversial in their design, Roger Dubuis is a brand that when at its best is able to combine a true appreciation…

So, what watch does one wear to the Academy Awards as a first-time Oscar nominee? Admittedly, this was a first-world problem Tom Cross – editor of the film Whiplash (nominated for five Oscars, including Cross for Best Editing) – did not anticipate when he started…

Welcome to the second installment in our Movement Hands-On Series, an irregular series of articles where we scrutinize and analyze unique and interesting calibers. In part one, we took a close look at the highly unusual movement of the MB&F HM6 Space Pirate, and today,…

Last December during Art Basel 2014, I had a chance to meet and take some photographs of Serena Williams. She was visiting the Audemars Piguet VIP booth at the show, and is a newer ambassador of the brand. What struck me then was how passionate…

Kirk M. from Lynnwood, Washington, USA, asks: Why do so many Diver’s watches have the first 15 or 20 minutes on the bezel a different color? My Seiko SKX009 has red for the first 20 minutes and blue for the READ MORE…

Zenith celebrates its 150th anniversary with the mega complicated and intricate Zenith Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage II, which combines the very best of haute horology with metiers d'art.…

For 2014, Blancpain released an interesting new tourbillon piece, known as the Villeret Tourbillon Volant Une Minute 12 Jours timepiece, which I now present to you hands-on here. This is also a good time to mention that at the outset of Baselworld 2014, the aBlogtoWatch…

It takes a certain degree of familiarity with what happens on a daily basis in the watch lover world on (mostly) Instagram to understand the various levels of humor found in the remarkably on-point satirical Instagram account "Watch_Amish." On the surface, you have a pretty…

Beyond major new releases, every year BaselWorld also sees countless model updates. Two of the more notable ones are coming from Glashütte Original who announced two new-for-2015 versions of both their PanoReserve and PanoMaticLunar pieces, including models in steel with a new blue dial.…